Meanings
- not comparablevideo gamesNot scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.
Learic and Leanoric concoct their spells by travelling round the flip-screen landscape, collecting rare herbs and roots from the countryside.
1987, Feud (review in Crash magazine issue 38)2 more examples
Yes, that's right, you've correctly deduced from the plot that what we're talking about here is a flip-screen adventure, each screen presenting you with a few baddies to beat up and one or two problems to solve before you can progress onto the next one.
1990, Hammerfist (review in Your Sinclair magazine issue 54)So, your masterpiece is going to have to be either a straightforward (upward?) vertically scrolling blast (with a choice of fast or faster still but both supremely smooth), a single flip-screen affair or a 'push-scrolling' jobbie where the screen scrolls in accordance with the main sprite.
1992, Ian Osborne, Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit (review in Zzap! magazine issue 84)Synonyms: flick-screen
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.
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